Track Santa with these Resources
December 24, 2007
NORAD Tracks Santa (North American Air Defense Command) - In 1955 Sears in Colorado Springs ran an advertisement for a special hotline that kids could call to track where Santa Claus is. In a strange twist, they misprinted the phone number, and the misprinted number turned out to be the Commander in Chief’s operations hotline for NORAD (at the time it was known as CONAD). Read the full story here. NORAD has been using their sophisticated mistle Missile tracking equipment to track Santa ever since. This year NORAD is using Google Maps, and you can even track Santa using Google Earth in 3d.
Google Earth’s Santa Tracker Page - The Google side of the NORAD / Google partnership. Evidently, Santa wants Google to implement naughty and nice data layers into Google earth.
Santa’s GPS - A Downloadable Application for Windows, written by Santa’s Elves to avoid all of those pesky Internet bottlenecks.
If you’re going to be up all night, these will give you a good idea of when you should jump into bed. You know Santa won’t come if your awake, right?
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December 24th, 2007 at 1:00 pm
Hey thanks for the great post!
The “mistle” typo made me LOL.
I’d never heard the story about how it got started. That’s interesting.
December 24th, 2007 at 1:06 pm
Thanks, I’m glad you liked it!
I had heard it last year, but I had to go look it up this time.
December 24th, 2007 at 1:06 pm
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